Green Blog: On Our Radar: Rerouting the Keystone XL Pipeline: State lawmakers in Nebraska will vote Tuesday on a...

TransCanada agrees to find a new route for the Keystone XL pipeline that will skirt the environmentally sensitive Sand Hills area and the Ogallala aquifer in Nebraska. Still, the project cannot move forward anytime soon; a State Department spokesman says the federal government’s own review “could conclude as early as” the first quarter of 2013. [Reuters] Researchers who mapped radioactive contamination from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say that mountains sheltered northwestern and western parts of Japan from some of the radioactive cesium-137. {Associated Press] Rising global temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns could affect water flows on Africa’s Nile and Limpopo rivers , raising the risk of conflicts between Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in a region that is already chronically dry, a study says. Today is America Recycles Day , and...